“What would I give if I could live / Out of these waters? / What would I pay just for one day / Warm on the sand? / Betcha on land, they understand / Bet they don’t reprimand their daughters / Bright young women, sick o’ swimmin’ / Ready to stand!”

“Part of Their World” by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, from “The Little Mermaid” (John Musker and Ron Clements, 1989).

(reminder: @ryknight)

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“Sometimes, I think / When I look up real high / That there’s such a big world up there / I’d like to give it a try! / But then, I sink / ‘Cause it’s here I’m s’posed to stay / But I get so lonely down here / Tell me why’s it have to be that way? / Up there, there’s so much room / Where babies burp and flowers bloom…”

“Up There” by Marc Shaiman & Trey Parker, from “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” (Trey Parker, 1999).

Jim Emerson

Jim Emerson is the founding editor of RogerEbert.com and has written lots of things in lots of places over lots of years. Mostly involving movies.

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